Radiorobbes audio treasures

Here is a very neat recording for all siren fans which I managed to catch one summer night last year. It is the DS977 model, which served as a standard siren since the 60s in the former GDR to alert the population and fire brigades. It also has been exported to other countries in eastern…

Someone asked for loud engine noises, so here they are. First one is a motorcycle recorded today around 3:40 PM.

I woke up from this eerie scream even with the bedroom window closed. The whole thing sounds even creepier in low pitch. Unfortunately, there is a small glitch in the recording, this is caused by the hour change when the stream recorder starts a new file.

On September 17, 2022, our local fire department celebrated its 130th birthday. To mark the occasion, a parade was held featuring fire trucks from all over the county. Here is a five minute clip of the parade as it reached my house. Actually, my microphones are set very low and without pre-processing, but in this…

It is half past ten in the evening here, and someone just thought it would be a good idea to show off his trumpet skills. Well, at least it makes some noise.

This is a recording I made to test a new sound device for my outside microphones, an Axagon ADA-17 if you’re curious. It has a 3.5 inch stereo input and provides a litte more plugin power than the usual 1.5V, a very rarely seen feature in cheap USB devices. To get an idea of the…

In germany the car signal for police and fire fighters is called the Martinshorn. There are two different versions of the alarm depending on the driving environment (city or countryside). In this recording you hear an alarm switching between both versions every second for some odd reason. So either this thing was just broken or…

Nothing to report recently from my neighborhood, so let’s have a listen to some older recordings. First one is a nearby lightning strike from june 13th 2020. You can even hear the time difference between lightning and thunder in this recording.